What techniques exists in R to visualize a “distance matrix”?

Question

I wish to present a distance matrix in an article I am writing, and I am looking for good visualization for it.

So far I came across balloon plots (I used it here, b

Answer 1

1. A dendrogram based on a hierarchical cluster analysis can be useful: http://www.statmethods.net/advstats/cluster.html

2. A 2-D or 3-D multidimensional scaling analysis in R: http://www.statmethods.net/advstats/mds.html

3. If you want to go into 3+ dimensions, you might want to explore ggobi / rggobi: http://www.ggobi.org/rggobi/